Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti
state, has asked President
Muhammadu Buhari to reach him on
telephone to prove that he is hale
and hearty.
The presidency has released a list of
the persons Buhari had telephone
conversation with since he left the
country for the UK on January 19.
Among them are foreign leaders like
President Donald Trump of US; King
Mohammed VI of Morocco; and Alpha
Conde, Guinean president and
chairman of the African Union (UN).
In Nigeria, Femi Adesina, presidential
spokesman; Lai Mohammed, minister
of information; and Abdullahi
Ganduje, governor of Kano state, are
among those who have spoken with
Buhari on telephone.
The decision to make the
conversations public is seen as a
move to dispel the rumours that
Buhari is critically ill.
But in a statement issued on his
behalf by Idowu Adelusi, his chief
press secretary, Fayose taunted the
presidency, saying he could help in
convincing Nigerians that Buhari is
well.
“If their problem is that they are
looking for a credible person who can
help them convince Nigerians that all
is well with our president, I’m their
best bet,” he said.
“Let the president speak with me. If I
tell Nigerians that the president
spoke with me, Nigerians will believe.
“Since they are eager for the
president to speak to people;
believing in this way to convince
Nigerians that their president is hale
and hearty, let president Buhari talk
to me. I can be reached on
08035024994. I am credible and
Nigerians will believe me.
“They said he spoke to President
Donald Trump; despite the hype,
Nigerians were skeptical. Then they
said he spoke to the king of Morocco;
again, Nigerians were suspicious.
Before we recovered from that, it is
now the AU president that they said
President Buhari spoke to.
“A president that can speak with
outsiders should be able to whisper
or wave to his own people. The
people gave him the very important
platform of President on which he
stands today and, therefore,
Presidential aides should stop giving
the unhelpful impression that Buhari
has no respect for the Nigerian
electorate.”
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